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Michael Johnston on the “Human Business” of Education
… Despite the protests that followed his selection as this year’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) Convocation speaker, Michael Johnston , … to decide, and the will to love as the fundamental values of the “human business” of education. Underscoring the …
Boston in Motion
… Imagine running the Boston Marathon in 1635, a few years after the city was … ending in a swim through the swampy waters to the west of the Boston Neck—then a rail-thin strip of land connecting … looked to the right during your swim, tall hills would have risen from the water. Cattle would have meandered through …
Dorm of Bread and Honey
… Several years ago, the Jordan residential cooperatives, adjacent to Radcliffe Quad at the intersection of Shepard and Walker Streets, became dorms; they are now … Below, Robert Saarnio '74 ('92) recalls the flavor of Jordan cooperative living in its glory days. After …
Families on the Edge
… Humberto started to pace back and forth across the floor of the cinder-block home, cradling his son in his … diarrhea and frequent infections. Accidents and injuries arise from young children being hit by cars when they are too …
Issue: July-August 2003
The Innovation Engine
… When Harvard president Lawrence S. Bacow stressed the vital role of immigrants in both higher education and the economy … U.S. entrepreneurs were born overseas, this number having risen steadily since at least 1995. Such patterns are more …
Issue: January-February 2019
Meet the Candidates
… The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) nominating committee … has announced the 2022 candidate slates for the Board of Overseers (one of the University’s two governing boards) … in a rapidly changing world driven by technology and the rise of artificial intelligence, political and social …
Issue: March-April 2022
Of Solar Panels and Salvaged Sinks
… As fuel costs skyrocket and concerns grow about the world's energy resources, the idea of creating a more energy-efficient home becomes more … not economical," says Henry Lee '68, M.P.A. '74, director of the environmental and natural resources program at …
Issue: September-October 2001
Learning, and Life, in the Houses
… In 2008, when Suzy Nelson, then Harvard College’s associate dean for residential life, … and Elizabeth Ross about becoming master and co-master of Currier House, she suggested that it was good to eat with … “Elizabeth wrinkled her nose,” recalls Wrangham, Moore professor of biological anthropology—not at the students’ …
Issue: November-December 2013
Bearer of Bad News
… This week's New York Times Magazine has a profile of New York University economist Nouriel Roubini, whose … been startlingly spot-on. Roubini, Ph.D. ’88, predicted the U.S. economy's current conditions with chilling …
Governing Games of Chance
… Gambling goes back millennia, but today’s proliferation of mobile phones has transformed it into a nearly ubiquitous global commercial enterprise, with looming public health implications. “You’ve got … pocket 24-7,” observes Harvard Kennedy School professor of the practice of public management Malcolm Sparrow, who …
Issue: March-April 2025
Does Money Matter?
… These days , super PACs (political action committees) don’t … support from one, while his money-flush rivals dropped off one after another. Jeb Bush fizzled out in February when the $100 million spent by his Right to Rise super PAC failed to generate liftoff. Marco Rubio threw …
Issue: July-August 2016
New Masters of Pforzheimer House
… College dean Evelynn M. Hammonds announced today that professor of the history of science Anne Harrington ’82 and her …
Vita: Ann Petry
… move to New York, Ann (Lane) Petry did not come in search of celebrity or fame. She left her hometown of Old Saybrook, … Harlem in 1938 to join her new husband, George, to escape the expectations of her middle-class family, and to pursue … grew and as the specter of a second Red Scare began to rise, Petry and her husband returned to Old Saybrook in …
Issue: January-February 2014
At Home with Harvard: The Undergraduate
… This round-up is part of Harvard Magazine ’s series “At Home with Harvard,” a … watch, listen to, and do while social distancing. Read the prior pieces, featuring stories about the history of … the admission of women, the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, the rise of women in the faculty ranks, Harvard’s first woman …
Reflections of Pandemic Intimacy
… Katherine Bradford’s color-saturated works often feature bold, … or human bodies lodged within an amorphous frame of time and space. One recent painting, Mother’s Lap, …
Issue: September-October 2021